New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
LEFT WITH THE HIGHER COURE
THE HEARING IN IHE ANARCHISTS CASES
ARGUMENTS ALL IN-No DECISION EXPEclFD NJ
FORE SEPTEMBER.

ARGUMENTS ALL Mo DECISION EXPEcifD DE-
FORE sEPILMBER.
FIR TELEGKAru TO THE IkiLusEl
CHICAGO, March ls.-The closing Arguments for
ard against the iaynarkct IN 'rchsis were heard b.
the Illinois Supreme Court at Ottawa to-day. The
small courtroom again crowned with spectators.
states Attorney GrDneil, IN nj. opening said: W c
do not clan mlalibtY Tor attorneys or court but do
claim that there nothing in the record piled .p hero
worthy # reversing this My strong instinct as
American cizen alter listening to TRADES against
law, may have caused improprctcs III rPeech but
no damage resulted. The testimony produced tie
verdict. Ihis not great because oi unknown
qucstoDs OF law. not geat Locausc OF seven yos AZ
sake, bat great because IL Is t. cs the Institutions Of
this county am not sweIved by the statement that
anarchy IN on trial, i0r II -. Mr UrbneIi then
analyLed tho lury Tue defence attemi ted To enas
geralc magnificent errors" soid lie. Nine hundred
and eighty were called INTO the jury box; I51 were
excused tor cause, twelve w'ro taken; DcDkee and
Snn. alone objected to- The defence irst ac-
ccpted eight of the twelve" The nation OF the
last Juror SANFORD was read in iu before tue
The last hour OF Mr. Grnnels time supplemented Mr.
IngrabAms exposition ot the gcat conspiracy and the
speeches OF Spies. Parsons and fielden at the Hay
market meeting were anaiyzed and reports Oi the
meeting read
Attorney General Hunt made the last argument 'or
the State. " We stand by old Englirn common law,
siid SIR Hunt. IL l. extensive with the domain oi
rascaity | shall consider these laws reiaing TO
conspiracy accessories clearly established hy
nv associates. Our theory ia resistance OF officers OF
the law and the destruction OF the police force OF Chi
ca.o From the speech OF spies al Grand RAPIDS,
from the conspiracy organs IN German and English,
the acts and declarations oil all the c0n-pTaor-,
that they all converge to one point OF time
when wOrkmen were expected 10 bc ille and excited.
The acton OF the authorities and police was justlale
under tue law. The Resistance un act OF maghity
Performed the result shows, by one eNperenc d IN
the at Ol mountaineering. The destruction of the
police was tne first step TO 81 TO the establishment
OF order OF Things But their guilt de ends upon
such mar ground IA the ltayniarkct not aonc.
Ihey are convicted OF plans and purposes bring
conflict about and OF preparations 10 oppose the Ia \
and officers by tOrcc and dynamite"
Captain Black. WHO closed Tor the Anarchists, de-
voted himself largely to tue claim that the jury ~aa
Gary rulings lie then rcyie wed the evidence and
attempted To show that IL not III sufficient
TO convict any one of the eight. lie bitter In his
speech against the police, and held To the claim that
the meeting was legal and peaceful one that the
crowd would have exercised proper ri isht in rcpelln
the police The speech was even more bitter IN IFS
tone than the delivered the lower court. and nc
again casscd the condemned men in the category OF
patriots.
Supreme Court Clerk Alfred II. Taylor il authority
Tor the statement that il the court afrms the verdict
found IN Judge Garys coart, that the opinion will not
bc filed until IL can be done III open court ut The next
sitting II Ottawa which will not be until September.
Whichever way II IA decided II will not be Cbici
Justice Scott Will be the Pacific Coast tor many
weeks yet. and IL Is thought that opinion will be
pre-, arcd in the until he returns and pods his
through the load OF records before the court The
absence of the Chief Justice Is construed by "a
mean that lie wished to evadc any action in this par
t.ular His friends that Judge Scott has but
short term remaining and that he will not again be
n candidate and that ho can have possible motive
| in being absent.